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• Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

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  Advice, Kind, Trouble

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

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  Inspirational, Maturity, Feelings

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• Why do so many people yearn for an eternal life when they don't even know what to do with themselves in this brief one?

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  People, Immortality, Eternal Life

  Sydney J. Harris (1957). “Majority of one”

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• Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

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  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  Sydney J. Harris (1982). “Pieces of Eight”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Every rule in the book can be broken, except one - be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

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  Book, Effectiveness, Broken

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion.

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  Compassion, Justice, Judging

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• A famously wise old man in a village was once asked how he came by his wisdom. "I got it from my good judgment," he answered. And where did his good judgment come from? "I got it from my bad judgment."

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about.

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  Time, World, Care

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• Good teaching must be slow enough so that it is not confusing, and fast enough so that it is not boring.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Confusing

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• We truly possess only what we are able to renounce; otherwise, we are simply possessed by our possessions.

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  Able, Renounce, Possession

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Isolation always perverts; when a man lives only among his own sort, he soon begins to believe that his sort are the best sort. This attitude breeds both the arrogance of the conservative and the bitterness of the radical.

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  Attitude, Believe, Men

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we have stopped saying 'It got lost,' and say, 'I lost it.'

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  Education, Responsibility, Parenting

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• It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

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  Relationship, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others; a loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

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  Growth, Experts, Want

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “Leaving the Surface”

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• As we grow older, we should learn that these are two quite different things. Character is something you forge for yourself; temperament is something you are born with and can only slightly modify. Some people have easy temperaments and weak characters; others have difficult temperaments and strong characters. We are all prone to confuse the two in assessing people we associate with. Those with easy temperaments and weak characters are more likable than admirable; those with difficult temperaments and strong characters are more admirable than likable.

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  Strong, Character, Two

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure.

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  Self, Discipline, Talent

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Doctrine, Power Politics

  Sydney J. Harris (1976). “Best of Sydney J. Harris”

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• Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

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  Real, Knowing, People

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• The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

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  Appreciation, Loss, Swings

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• No one should pay attention to a man delivering a lecture or a sermon on his "philosophy of life" until we know exactly how he treats his wife, his children, his neighbors, his friends, his subordinates and his enemies.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

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  Mother, Children, Believe

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• We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

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  Believe, Passion, Prejudice

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

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  Men, Advice, Mind

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• The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.

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  Failure, Mean, Acceptance

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure.

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  Pain, Suffering, Withdrawal

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